← All authors Kosali Simon Indiana University (from arXiv:2102.05596, 2021) · ORCID · OpenAlex
113 papers in scope · 112 published · 2 on the econ.EM arXiv · 6,628 citations · h-index 39 (over the papers listed here)
Papers (1 of 113)
The Redistributive Effects of Federal Medicaid Outlays Across Counties: Evidence From the ACA
published 2026 · Public Budgeting & Finance
State Comprehensive Opioid Prescribing Limits Associated With Reduced Opioid-Related Hospitalizations And ED Visits
published 2026 · Health Affairs
with Yanlei Ma, Coleman Drake, Hefei Wen
States With Substantial Increases In Buprenorphine Uptake Did So With Increased Medicaid Prescribing, 2018–24
published 2025 · Health Affairs · 6 citations
with Stephen Crystal, Fangzhou Xie, Hillary Samples, Allen Campbell, Peter Treitler, Elizabeth M. Stone, Sumedha Gupta, Jennifer Miles
Changes in Chronic Medication Dispensing to Children and Young Adults During Medicaid Unwinding
published 2025 · PEDIATRICS · 4 citations
with Kao-Ping Chua, Joanne Constantin, Genevieve M. Kenney, Rena M. Conti
Understanding health care price variation: evidence from Transparency-in-Coverage data
published 2025 · Health Affairs Scholar · 4 citations
with Christopher Whaley, Nandita Radhakrishnan, Michael R. Richards, Benjamin Chartock
The electricity cost burden of durable medical equipment in the United States
published 2024 · Scientific Reports · 4 citations
with Sanya Carley, Shreya Bansal, Charles Harak, Peter A. Kahn, David M. Konisky
Developing Evidence-Based Health Policy for Dementia Care
published 2024 · JAMA Health Forum · 1 citations
with Katherine Baicker
Do workers undervalue COVID-19 risk? Evidence from wages and death certificate data
published 2024 · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · 1 citations
Designing Difference-in-Difference Studies with Staggered Treatment Adoption: Key Concepts and Practical Guidelines
published 2024 · Annual Review of Public Health · 65 citations · first circulated 2023
Transparency in Coverage Data and Variation in Prices for Common Health Care Services
published 2023 · JAMA Health Forum · 11 citations
with Benjamin Chartock, Christopher Whaley
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Buprenorphine Receipt Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2015–19
published 2023 · Health Affairs · 12 citations
with Jennifer Miles, Peter Treitler, James F. Lloyd, Hillary Samples, Anais Mahone, Richard Hermida, Sumedha Gupta, Alexandra Duncan, Vanessa Baaklini, Stephen Crystal
The impact of state Medicaid eligibility and benefits policy on neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations
published 2023 · Contemporary Economic Policy
with Aparna Soni, Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Christina M. Andrews, Amanda J. Abraham
Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws
published 2023 · Journal of Health Economics · 11 citations · first circulated 2020
Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Comparison Of Insurance Restrictions, 2017–21
published 2023 · Health Affairs · 27 citations
Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? Evidence from the United States during a pandemic
published 2023 · Health Economics · 24 citations
with Martin Andersen, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Michael F. Pesko
Health Equity Measures and Hospital Rankings
published 2023 · JAMA · 2 citations
with Ge Bai, Peter Cram
Opioid Prescriptions Prior to Emergency Department Dental Visits: A Comparison of Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (DPSAs) and Non-DPSAs Using Electronic Health Records
published 2023 · 1 citations
Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes
published 2022 · Contemporary Economic Policy · 181 citations · first circulated 2020
College openings in the United States increase mobility and COVID-19 incidence
published 2022 · PLoS ONE · 32 citations
with Martin Andersen, Ana I. Bento, Anirban Basu, Christopher R. Marsicano
Simulated power analyses for observational studies: An application to the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion
published 2022 · Journal of Public Economics · 31 citations · first circulated 2019
with Bernard S. Black, Alex Hollingsworth, Letícia Nunes
Coverage Effects of the ACA's Medicaid Expansion on Adult Reproductive-Aged Women, Postpartum Mothers, and Mothers with Older Children
published 2022 · Maternal and Child Health Journal · 8 citations
with Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds
Many States Were Able To Expand Medicaid Without Increasing Administrative Spending
published 2021 · Health Affairs · 5 citations
Impacts of state COVID ‐19 reopening policy on human mobility and mixing behavior
published 2021 · Southern Economic Journal · 30 citations
Marijuana liberalization policies and perinatal health
published 2021 · Journal of Health Economics · 15 citations
with Angélica Meinhofer, Allison Witman, Jesse M. Hinde
Vaccinations Against COVID-19 May Have Averted Up To 140,000 Deaths In The United States
published 2021 · Health Affairs · 139 citations
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
published 2021 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 74 citations
with Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra
US Trends in COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Before and After Reopening Economies
published 2021 · JAMA Health Forum · 16 citations
with Sumedha Gupta, Archelle Georgiou, Soumya Sen, Pinar Karaca-Mandic
The Association Between Scope of Practice Regulations and Nurse Practitioner Prescribing of Buprenorphine After the 2016 Opioid Bill
published 2021 · Medical Care Research and Review · 33 citations
Heterogeneous effects of health insurance on birth related outcomes: Unpacking compositional versus direct changes
published 2021 · Contemporary Economic Policy · 5 citations · first circulated 2020
with Jie Ma
working paper 2021 · arXiv
Institutions For Mental Diseases Medicaid Waivers: Impact On Payments For Substance Use Treatment Facilities
published 2021 · Health Affairs · 30 citations
with Johanna Catherine Maclean, Hefei Wen, Brendan Saloner
How Much Do Outside Options Matter? The Effect of Subsidized Health Insurance on Social Security Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt
published 2021 · Journal of Health Economics · 2 citations
with Bradley T. Heim, Ithai Z. Lurie, Kathleen J. Mullen
Is Healthcare Employment Resilient and “Recession Proof”?
published 2021 · 14 citations
with Marcus Dillender, Andrew Friedson, Cong Gian
Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing
published 2020 · Journal of Health Economics · 88 citations · first circulated 2019
Strategic use of health information exchange and market share, payer mix, and operating margins
published 2020 · Health Care Management Review · 8 citations
with Joshua R. Vest, Seth Freedman, Mark Aaron Unruh, Abdulaziz Bako
The Affordable Care Act Young Adult Mandate and Suicidal Behavior
published 2020 · Medical Care Research and Review · 1 citations
with Lauren M. O’Reilly, Blake Froberg, Cong Gian, Brian M. D’Onofrio
How Have ACA Insurance Expansions Affected Health Outcomes? Findings From The Literature
published 2020 · Health Affairs · 80 citations
with Aparna Soni, Laura Wherry
Job postings in the substance use disorder treatment related sector during the first five years of Medicaid expansion
published 2020 · PLoS ONE · 9 citations
Same Game, Different Names: Cream-Skimming in the Post-ACA Individual Health Insurance Market
published 2020 · 3 citations
Mandated and Voluntary Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Epidemic
published 2020 · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 70 citations
ACA Medicaid Expansion Associated With Increased Medicaid Participation and Improved Health Among Near-Elderly: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
published 2020 · 29 citations
with Melissa McInerney, Ruth Winecoff, Padmaja Ayyagari, M. Kate Bundorf
Does the healthcare educational market respond to short-run local demand?
published 2019 · Economics of Education Review · 5 citations
with Marcus Dillender, Andrew Friedson, Cong Gian
The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion
published 2019 · 8th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists · 51 citations · first circulated 2017
with Ausmita Ghosh, Benjamin D. Sommers
Gains in health insurance coverage explain variation in Democratic vote share in the 2008-2016 presidential elections
published 2019 · PLoS ONE · 12 citations
with Alex Hollingsworth, Aparna Soni, Aaron E. Carroll, John Cawley
Prescription Drug Policy
published 2018 · 2018 APPAM Fall Research Conference: Evidence for Action: Encouraging Innovation and Improvement
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The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults:Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions
published 2018 · Journal of Health Economics · 116 citations
with Ausmita Ghosh, Benjamin D. Sommers
Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans
published 2018 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 56 citations · first circulated 2016
with Kurt Lavetti
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing: Evidence From Tax Data
published 2018 · Demography · 25 citations · first circulated 2017
with Bradley T. Heim, Ithai Z. Lurie
Third Year of Survey Data Shows Continuing Benefits of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Childless Adults in the U.S.
published 2018 · Journal of General Internal Medicine · 69 citations
with John Cawley, Aparna Soni
Learning From Waiver States: Coverage Effects Under Indiana’s HIP Medicaid Expansion
published 2018 · Health Affairs · 20 citations
with Seth Freedman, Lilliard E. Richardson
Designing Difference in Difference Studies: Best Practices for Public Health Policy Research
published 2018 · Annual Review of Public Health · 1500 citations
Effect of Medicaid Expansions of 2014 on Overall and Early-Stage Cancer Diagnoses
published 2017 · American Journal of Public Health · 113 citations
with Aparna Soni, John Cawley, Lindsay M. Sabik
Did the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Analysis Using Tax Data
published 2017 · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 28 citations
with Bradley T. Heim, Ithai Z. Lurie
The Healthy Indiana Plan’s 2015 Insurance Expansion: Implications for Health Insurance, Health Care and Health Outcomes
published 2017 · 2017 APPAM Fall Research Conference
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Changes in Insurance Coverage Among Cancer Patients Under the Affordable Care Act
published 2017 · JAMA Oncology · 83 citations
with Aparna Soni, Lindsay M. Sabik, Benjamin D. Sommers
Changes in inpatient payer-mix and hospitalizations following Medicaid expansion: Evidence from all-capture hospital discharge data
published 2017 · PLoS ONE · 42 citations
with Seth Freedman, Sayeh Nikpay, Aaron E. Carroll
Macroeconomic conditions and opioid abuse
published 2017 · Journal of Health Economics · 316 citations
with Alex Hollingsworth, Christopher J. Ruhm
Medicaid Expansion And State Trends In Supplemental Security Income Program Participation
published 2017 · Health Affairs · 42 citations
with Aparna Soni, Marguerite Burns, Laura Dague
Demand for health insurance marketplace plans was highly elastic in 2014–2015
published 2017 · Economics Letters · 25 citations
Health Insurance and Emergency Department Use — A Complex Relationship
published 2017 · New England Journal of Medicine · 56 citations
with Benjamin D. Sommers
What drives insurer participation and premiums in the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace?
published 2017 · International Journal of Health Economics and Management · 19 citations
with Jean Abraham, Coleman Drake, Jeffrey S. McCullough
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act and Insurance Coverage in Rural and Urban Areas
published 2017 · The Journal of Rural Health · 74 citations
with Aparna Soni, Michael Hendryx
The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions
published 2017 · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 469 citations · first circulated 2016
with Aparna Soni, John Cawley
Implications of the Affordable Care Act for Patients and Providers
published 2016 · 6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists
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Does Public Health Insurance Affect Labor Market Behavior? An Analysis of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions Using Tax Records
published 2016 · 2016 Fall Conference: The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective
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Impact of Premium Subsidies on the Take-up of Health Insurance: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
published 2016 · American Journal of Health Economics · 17 citations · first circulated 2014
with Asako S. Moriya
Dependent Coverage under the ACA and Medicaid Coverage for Childbirth
published 2016 · New England Journal of Medicine · 31 citations
with Yaa Akosa Antwi, Jie Ma, Aaron E. Carroll
Impacts on Emergency Department Visits from Personal Responsibility Provisions: Evidence from West Virginia's Medicaid Redesign
published 2016 · Health Services Research · 3 citations
with Tami Gurley-Calvez, Genevieve M. Kenney, Douglas Wissoker
Medicaid Expansion Did Not Result In Significant Employment Changes Or Job Reductions In 2014
published 2016 · Health Affairs · 126 citations
with Angshuman Gooptu, Asako S. Moriya, Benjamin D. Sommers
Little Change Seen In Part-Time Employment As A Result Of The Affordable Care Act
published 2016 · Health Affairs · 53 citations
with Asako S. Moriya, Thomas M. Selden
Changes in Emergency Department Use Among Young Adults After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Dependent Coverage Provision
published 2015 · Annals of Emergency Medicine · 81 citations
with Yaa Akosa Antwi, Asako S. Moriya, Benjamin D. Sommers
The Effect of Medicaid Expansions in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s on the Labor Supply of Pregnant Women
published 2015 · American Journal of Health Economics · 84 citations · first circulated 2013
with Dhaval Dave, Sandra L. Decker, Robert Kaestner
The Earnings and Consulting Income of US Health Economists: Results from the 2012 Survey of the American Society of Health Economists
published 2015 · American Journal of Health Economics · 4 citations
with John Cawley, Michael A. Morrisey
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Tax Data
published 2015 · Tax Policy and the Economy · 43 citations · first circulated 2014
with Bradley T. Heim, Ithai Z. Lurie
Access to health insurance and the use of inpatient medical care: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act young adult mandate
published 2014 · Journal of Health Economics · 182 citations
with Yaa Akosa Antwi, Asako S. Moriya
Public health insurance expansions and hospital technology adoption
published 2014 · Journal of Public Economics · 34 citations
with Seth Freedman, Haizhen Lin
Marital Disruption and Health Insurance
published 2014 · Demography · 38 citations
with H. Elizabeth Peters, Jamie Rubenstein Taber, Liz Peters
Impact of State Health Insurance Mandates on Self Insurance
published 2014 · Health & Healthcare in America: From Economics to Policy
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TAXPAYER WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM: A CONTINGENT VALUATION ANALYSIS
published 2014 · Economic Inquiry · 6 citations
with Kurt Lavetti, William D. White
How Has the Affordable Care Act’s Medical Loss Ratio Regulation Affected Insurer Behavior?
published 2014 · Medical Care · 21 citations
with Jean Abraham, Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act's Dependent-Coverage Mandate
published 2013 · American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 231 citations · first circulated 2012
with Yaa Akosa Antwi, Asako S. Moriya
IS THE MEDICAL LOSS RATIO A GOOD TARGET MEASURE FOR REGULATION IN THE INDIVIDUAL MARKET FOR HEALTH INSURANCE?
published 2013 · Health Economics · 34 citations
with Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Jean Abraham
Financial distress and use of mental health care: Evidence from antidepressant prescription claims
published 2013 · Economics Letters · 23 citations
with Haizhen Lin, Jonathan D. Ketcham, J. Niels Rosenquist, James N. Rosenquest
Drug withdrawals and the utilization of therapeutic substitutes: The case of Vioxx
published 2012 · 24 citations
with J. Michael Collins, Sharon Tennyson
THE WELFARE IMPACT OF REDUCING CHOICE IN MEDICARE PART D: A COMPARISON OF TWO REGULATION STRATEGIES*
published 2012 · International Economic Review · 29 citations · first circulated 2008
with Claudio Lucarelli, Jeffrey Prince
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF VALUING HEALTH INSURANCE ON LEVELS AND TRENDS IN INEQUALITY AND HOW THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 COULD AFFECT THEM
published 2012 · Contemporary Economic Policy · 19 citations · first circulated 2010
with Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore
The impact of direct-to-consumer television and magazine advertising on antidepressant use
published 2012 · Journal of Health Economics · 74 citations
with Rosemary J. Avery, Matthew D. Eisenberg
A "SECOND OPINION" ON THE ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
published 2012 · National Tax Journal · 67 citations · first circulated 2011
with Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore
Declines in Employer‐Sponsored Insurance between 2000 and 2008: Examining the Components of Coverage by Firm Size
published 2012 · Health Services Research · 25 citations
with Jessica Vistnes, Alice Zawacki, Amy K. Taylor
Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States
published 2011 · Demography · 56 citations · first circulated 2007
with Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo
The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
published 2011 · Health Economics · 13 citations
with John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya
The Effect of Medicaid Expansions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Pregnant Women: An Analysis Using Deliveries
published 2010 · 34 citations
with Dhaval Dave, Sandra L. Decker, Robert Kaestner
Patient education and the impact of new medical research
published 2009 · Journal of Health Economics · 51 citations
with Joseph Price
The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans
published 2009 · Health Economics · 92 citations · first circulated 2007
with John Cawley, John R. Moran
Older Adults Place Lower Value on Choice Relative to Young Adults
published 2009 · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 35 citations
with Joseph A. Mikels, Andrew E. Reed
Do State Cost Control Policies Reduce Medicaid Prescription Drug Spending?
published 2009 · Risk Management and Insurance Review · 16 citations
with Sharon Tennyson, Julie Hudman
How Does Extending Public Health Insurance Affect Hospitalizations? The Case of CHIP Expansions for Children
published 2009 · 한국사회보장학회 정기학술발표논문집
with Eun Kyeong Lee
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Prenatal health investment decisions: Does the child’s sex matter?
published 2008 · Demography · 65 citations
with Aparna Lhila
Who Gets What From Employer Pay or Play Mandates ?
published 2008 · Risk Management and Insurance Review · 8 citations · first circulated 2007
with Richard V. Burkhauser
Data Needs for Policy Research on State-Level Health Insurance Markets
published 2008 · 7 citations
Where Do the Sick Go? Health Insurance and Employment in Small and Large Firms
published 2008 · Southern Economic Journal · 8 citations
with Kanika Kapur, José J. Escarce, M. Susan Marquis
Crowd-out 10 years later: Have recent public insurance expansions crowded out private health insurance?
published 2007 · Journal of Health Economics · 308 citations
with Jonathan Gruber
A Closer Look at the Managed Care Backlash
published 2006 · Medical Care · 24 citations
with Philip F. Cooper, Jessica Vistnes
The Effects of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance
published 2006 · American Economic Review · 14 citations
with M. Kate Bundorf
How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?
published 2006 · Health Services Research · 43 citations · first circulated 2005
with John Cawley, Mathis Schroeder
The Effect of SCHIP Expansions on Health Insurance Decisions by Employers
published 2005 · 27 citations
with Thomas C. Buchmueller, Philip Cooper, Jessica Vistnes
Wage determination under plan and early transition: Bulgarian evidence using matched employer–employee data
published 2005 · Journal of Comparative Economics · 32 citations
with Derek C. Jones
Health insurance coverage and the macroeconomy
published 2004 · Journal of Health Economics · 74 citations · first circulated 2003
with John Cawley
Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-Wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits
published 2004 · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 81 citations · first circulated 2003
with Robert Kaestner
Adverse selection in health insurance markets? Evidence from state small-group health insurance reforms
published 2004 · Journal of Public Economics · 122 citations
The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans
published 2003 · Forum for Health Economics & Policy · 6 citations
with John Cawley
Labor Market Consequences of State Health Insurance Regulation
published 2002 · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 57 citations
with Robert Kaestner
Data Watch: Research Data in Health Economics
published 2000 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 9 citations
with William N. Evans, Helen Levy
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